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Or to put it another way, Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. It is an old adage, but very true, especially in
Scouting. Whether planning a programme, a camp or your Districts future, you need simple and realistic
targets to ensure the District doesnt eventually shrink and close. This toolkit is yours to use, to help you plan
the continued success of your District. There is also help available in your area and from the HQ
Development Service.
Before we look at how to put a development plan together, lets ensure the targets we reach for are as
realistic as possible; this makes the whole process much easier in the long term. Make your targets:
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Development plans do not need to be long, complicated documents that go on for pages and pages. Some of
the best and most effective plans are the short and simple ones. Be realistic, what can you achieve this year?
There are two main sources that can contribute to a development plan, one is the RAG review, and the other
is a SWOT analysis of your District. Elements are taken from both, prioritised, and then some items are
placed on your development plan.
Planning Matrix
RAG ReviewSWOT Analysis
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The SWOT analysis helps you analyse the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats to your District.
Strengths and Weaknesses are internal factors. Opportunities and Threats are external factors that can allinfluence the future of your District.
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The RAG review is a simple set of criteria which you can check your District against. There are a number of
categories down the left hand side, and each one has three statements next to it. Each statement
corresponds to either Red, Amber or Green. Read all three and decide which one is the closest match to yourDistrict. Put the corresponding colour in your result column.
At the end there are some blank areas, giving you the flexibility to add in local, specific issues that may affect
your District. The last row is for your overall score; this is simply the RAG colour your District got the most of.
This is not an indication of how good you are as a Scout District; it is simply a way for Counties to coordinate
where they should support development. Your County Commissioner may ask for your overall score, or a
copy of your completed development pack. This will help them build the County development plan or just tomake them aware of local issues.
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Now that youve analysed the District, you will have a better understanding of which elements could do with
some support, but which ones do you prioritise? You can use a Planning Matrix to chart where you should
focus your efforts. It may be worth putting the elements that you are going to work on from the RAG and
SWOT analysis onto small sticky notes as they are likely to be moved around the windows until everyone is
happy. You may also want to draw the matrix on a bigger piece of paper.
Discuss with your team where they think items should be placed in the matrix, and how urgent and
important it is. Make sure there is a consensus over where items have been placed and that everyone's view
has been discussed and not ignored.
It is SOME of the items in top right hand box, the high importance, high urgency box, that will be carried
forward into the development plan.
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As mentioned before, development plans do not need to be huge, they need to be simple. Most Group
development plans should not have more than four to five targets, although you can review these targets,
perhaps annually. Take some of the elements from the high importance, high urgency box in the PlanningMatrix, and as a team decide which ones you could work towards this year. If this is your first development
plan go for the quick wins. You can progress across the RAG chart from say red to amber and amber to green
quite quickly, therefore your overall development plan gets smaller and you can see good progress is being
made.
Also remember to make any targets SMART! A blank Group development plan template is at the back of this
document. You may wish to photocopy it a couple of times as it might take one or two attempts to puttogether a SMART development plan.
Support is always available from the Regional Development Service (England), who can be contacted through
the Information Centre or by email:
0845 300 1818
In Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contact the Country Headquarters at:
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